Wednesday, December 18, 2013

New edition of AmeriGrove is here and it's got articles by UWM authors!

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Ed, which we call AmeriGrove has arrived!


It contains articles by three members of UWM's Faculty/Staff



Senior Lecturer in Music Martin Jack Rosenblum wrote the article "Music in Milwaukee"


Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology Gillian Rodger contributed a three long articles on 
Burlesque, Variety, and Vaudeville 
as well as brief biographical sketches of the following:
Braham, David
Hamblin, Thomas Sowerby
Harrigan, Edward
Hart, Tony
Janis, Elsie
Keith, B. F.
Keith-Albee (corporation)
Lingard, William Horace
Loew, Marcus
Pastor, Tony
Thompson, Lydia


UWM Libraries Music Cataloger, J. Bradford Young contributed the article on Classification and Cataloging of Music, as well as biographical sketches of OCLC Music Cataloging guru Jay Weitz and the late  
A. Ralph Papakhian of Indiana University.